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10. MINISTER. 



Fruit large, fair, unsymmetrical, ribbed; b.ase wide and tapering to a narrow apex. The 

 ground color, yellowish green ; ornamental color, carmine pencilled in stripes. Stem 

 long, slender, inserted in a wide shallow irregidar depression. Flesh yellowish white, 

 subacid, moderately rich. Tree productive. 



11. SWEET PEARMAIN. (English Sweeting of Rhode-Island.) 



Fruit of the medium size. Color dark, rich crimson, and marked with rough dots. Stem 

 slender, inserted in a wide depression ; basin small ; taste sweet. 



12. BLACK GILLIFLOWER. Plate 24. Fig. 3i 



Fruit of the medium size, elongated ; sub- 

 angular ; conical ; symmetrical. Color 

 dark crimson, and dull, obscurely stri- 

 ped; stem exsert, depression very nar- 

 row, calyx small ; depression shallow, 

 plaited, almost truncate. Flesh greenish 

 white, subacid, rich ; over ripe, very 

 mealy and dry. 

 This apple, though less esteemed than 



formerly, yet being a distinct variety and 



adapted to the iaale of many, should find 



a place in every orchard. 



